Pizza Hut reveals a 3D-printable device that uses the PS5's heat to keep pizza warm
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WTF?! Once again, a fast-food giant has given us a console crossover that nobody asked for. This time it's Pizza Hut that has revealed a weird item that melds the two long-associated elements of unhealthy eating and gaming: a device that keeps your pizza warm using the heat generated by the PlayStation 5.
The Pizzawrmr, from Pizza Hut Canada, is a contraption that connects to the top of your PS5. Its design and red highlights are inspired by Pizza Hut's red roof, and its lid opens like a laptop for easy pizza access, apparently.
The device works by channeling hot air from the console's exhaust to beneath where the pizza slices are located and directly into the compartment. It can hold several slices, and it's recommended that you insert a foil tray inside the warmer to protect your console from crumbs and grease. Pizza Hut also suggests you start gaming first to warm up your console, adding that medium slices are the most suitable size.
As Pizza Hut puts it, this is science and engineering for the greater good – great pizza.
Interestingly, the Pizzawrmr is not an actual product that you can buy. Instead, Pizza Hut Canada is making the 3D-printing source files and a PDF guide available to download.
The download includes STL files for the five components: the Pizzawrmr body, lid, manifold, and left and right stands. The unit requires a build volume over 15 inches x 15 inches x 4 inches in order to be printed in full components. If the printer's build volume is smaller than the required volume for the unit, which is likely to be the case with most consumers' 3D printers, it can be sliced to fit.
The 3D printing design is specifically engineered to be compatible only with the console that has rear ventilation measuring 11.7 inches by 1.31 inches, according to the guide.
The Pizzawrmr joins the list of fast-food-related gaming accessories. There was the KFC console that started out as a joke but became a real Intel NUC mini PC. And don't forget the McDonald's PS5 controller that ended up being canceled because Sony never authorized it.